VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 442 529
Rank change year-on-year -108 +87 +94
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 103 89 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.29% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.65% 0.95% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 69 44
10th Percentile £424 £510 £325
25th Percentile £475 £525 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +17.07% -5.31%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £556
90th Percentile £715 £690 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -15.50% +14.29% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15,931 9,348 12,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.31% 30.91% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,644 5,798 7,991
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £500 £527
% change year-on-year +1.40% -5.12% -0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,165 614 1,119
10th Percentile £17.43 £17.67 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £50.49 £28.34 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +78.14% -30.78% -25.90%
75th Percentile £72.54 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.35 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £43.00
% change year-on-year +82.65% -36.34% -19.87%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -128 82 £525 -12.58% 16
UK excluding London -122 71 £507 -15.50% 14
Work from Home -25 48 £596 +7.15% 5
South East -49 22 £610 -6.15% 9
North of England -59 19 £484 -3.20% 4
North West -34 14 £483 +10.40% 4
London -59 11 £628 +4.58% 6
West Midlands -52 10 £425 -39.29%
Midlands -57 10 £425 -39.29%
East of England -23 9 £507 -6.11% 2
South West -72 8 £553 -4.74%
Yorkshire -49 5 £519 +3.80%
Scotland - 4 £413 -

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.91%) Apache
1 3 (2.91%) CloudStack
1 3 (2.91%) Confluence
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.24%) Azure
2 18 (17.48%) AWS
3 7 (6.80%) GitHub
4 6 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.85%) Nutanix
5 5 (4.85%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.88%) GCP
6 4 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.91%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.91%) IaaS
7 3 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.94%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.94%) Datadog
8 2 (1.94%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (20.39%) VSAN
2 12 (11.65%) Firewall
2 12 (11.65%) SAN
3 10 (9.71%) NAS
4 9 (8.74%) DNS
5 7 (6.80%) WAN
6 6 (5.83%) LAN
7 5 (4.85%) SD-WAN
8 4 (3.88%) BGP
8 4 (3.88%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (3.88%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (3.88%) DHCP
8 4 (3.88%) IPsec
8 4 (3.88%) MPLS
8 4 (3.88%) OSPF
8 4 (3.88%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (3.88%) VPN
9 3 (2.91%) BIG-IP
9 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
9 3 (2.91%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.91%) JIRA
3 2 (1.94%) Git
3 2 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.97%) GitLab
General
1 26 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.80%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.94%) Finance
6 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (25.24%) VMware Engineer
2 17 (16.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (15.53%) Consultant
3 16 (15.53%) VMware Consultant
4 13 (12.62%) Wintel Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) Architect
6 10 (9.71%) Senior
7 9 (8.74%) VMware Specialist
8 8 (7.77%) PowerShell Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Administrator
10 6 (5.83%) JavaScript Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Lead
10 6 (5.83%) Network Architect
10 6 (5.83%) Principal Consultant
10 6 (5.83%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Storage Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (2.91%) REST
2 2 (1.94%) Flash
2 2 (1.94%) OpenGL
2 2 (1.94%) Qt
3 1 (0.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.36%) Data Centre
2 18 (17.48%) Replication
3 14 (13.59%) Clustering
4 13 (12.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (10.68%) Private Cloud
6 9 (8.74%) Public Cloud
7 5 (4.85%) Cloud Native
7 5 (4.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.91%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (2.91%) EMC VNX
8 3 (2.91%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.94%) CUDA
9 2 (1.94%) NVMe
10 1 (0.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.97%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (30.10%) Windows
2 25 (24.27%) Windows Server
3 13 (12.62%) Linux
4 5 (4.85%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (4.85%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (28.16%) Disaster Recovery
2 25 (24.27%) High Availability
3 24 (23.30%) Network Virtualisation
4 22 (21.36%) Capacity Planning
5 20 (19.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (19.42%) Project Delivery
6 17 (16.50%) Migration
7 13 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (12.62%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (11.65%) Agile
9 11 (10.68%) ITIL
10 9 (8.74%) DevOps
10 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (7.77%) CI/CD
11 8 (7.77%) Cloud Security
12 7 (6.80%) Data Centre Operations
12 7 (6.80%) Service Management
12 7 (6.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (6.80%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 62 (60.19%) PowerShell
2 52 (50.49%) Python
3 32 (31.07%) JavaScript
4 14 (13.59%) Bash
5 2 (1.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 68 (66.02%) Security Cleared
2 53 (51.46%) SC Cleared
3 29 (28.16%) VCAP
4 23 (22.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (17.48%) DV Cleared
5 18 (17.48%) MCSE
6 17 (16.50%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (14.56%) MCSA
8 13 (12.62%) CCNP
9 10 (9.71%) Azure Certification
10 7 (6.80%) Degree
11 6 (5.83%) AWS Certification
11 6 (5.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.83%) RHCA
12 5 (4.85%) NCDA
13 4 (3.88%) CCNA
14 3 (2.91%) CCA
14 3 (2.91%) CCIE
14 3 (2.91%) Citrix Certification
14 3 (2.91%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) NCSC
2 3 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.91%) SLA
3 1 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 64 (62.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (44.66%) VMware ESXi
3 36 (34.95%) vSphere
4 30 (29.13%) VMware NSX
5 20 (19.42%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (11.65%) Hyper-V
7 8 (7.77%) Active Directory
8 5 (4.85%) Docker
9 4 (3.88%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (2.91%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (2.91%) SRDF
11 2 (1.94%) KVM
11 2 (1.94%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (1.94%) NFS
11 2 (1.94%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 41 (39.81%) vCenter Server
2 38 (36.89%) Ansible
3 37 (35.92%) vRealize
4 11 (10.68%) PowerCLI
4 11 (10.68%) Terraform
5 10 (9.71%) Kubernetes
5 10 (9.71%) vMotion
6 7 (6.80%) Grafana
7 5 (4.85%) Prometheus
7 5 (4.85%) SCCM
8 4 (3.88%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (2.91%) Check_MK
9 3 (2.91%) EMC VPLEX
9 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (2.91%) Podman
9 3 (2.91%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.91%) Puppet
9 3 (2.91%) SCOM
9 3 (2.91%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.94%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 103 (100.00%) VMware
2 30 (29.13%) Microsoft
3 28 (27.18%) Cisco
4 9 (8.74%) Broadcom
5 8 (7.77%) SolarWinds
6 7 (6.80%) 3PAR
6 7 (6.80%) NetApp
7 5 (4.85%) Brocade
7 5 (4.85%) Commvault
7 5 (4.85%) Veeam
8 4 (3.88%) Nimble Storage
8 4 (3.88%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.91%) Atlassian
9 3 (2.91%) Dell
9 3 (2.91%) F5
9 3 (2.91%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.91%) Google
9 3 (2.91%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.91%) Remedy
9 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow